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silverlight

Driving RIA plug-in market share with multi-runtime support

July 15, 2009

Looking at the state of rich Internet applications in 2009 we can clearly see that proprietary plug-ins are getting more acceptance in the market. While people seemed to keep bashing Macromedia/Adobe for their proprietary Flash plug-in back in the early RIA days (2001-2006, and I had my share in the bashing), the situation has much [...]

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The Timeline – from VideoWorks in 1985 to Silverlight and JavaFX

July 7, 2009

I remember my first contact with the Flash authoring tool UI around 2000, when I watched a class of multimedia students learn how create animations and interactive browser based applications, and I thought: “What a crazy way of creating applications!” How little did I know at that time about the achievements the timeline based user [...]

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Eclipse4SL – Open Source Eclipse tool for Microsoft Silverlight

April 16, 2009

If you haven’t had heard of Eclipse4SL (Eclipse for Silverlight), that’s an open source extension for Eclipse for Microsoft Silverlight development.
“The purpose of this project [Eclipse4SL] is the creation of open source tools integrated with the Eclipse development platform that enable Java developers to use the Eclipse platform to create applications that run on the Microsoft [...]

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